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Actions Displays	Photographic postcard of Zurich Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2025/096:007 TitlePhotographic postcard of Zurich DescriptionPhotographic postcard featuring a street scene of Zurich. This postcard was sent to Kuba from a friend after he emigrated to Australia. Kuba Enoch was born in Krakow, Poland 1926. He was 13 years old when the war began; soon after, he and his family were rounded up into Krakow ghetto. When it was liquidated in 1943, Kuba's younger brother was removed and his parents were sent to Plaszow concentration camp. Hoping to locate his mother, Kuba volunteered to go on the next transport. He was sent to Ostrowiec, Aushwitz-Birkenau and was eventually moved to Buna camp where he remained until it was evacuated. Kuba was then marched to Buchenwald. Throughout his ordeal he was never reunited with his mother. Following liberation by U.S forces, Kuba was sent by the Red Cross to recover in Switzerland. He arrived in Australia in 1948. Production placeSwitzerland Production date 1947-02-02 Production periodpost World War II Subjectsurvivors, establishing new life, education, child survivors, schools & colleges, friendships Object namepostcards Materialpaper Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum collection, donated by Pearl Blasina. In appreciation to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) for supporting this archival project.

Object numberM2025/096:007

TitlePhotographic postcard of Zurich

DescriptionPhotographic postcard featuring a street scene of Zurich. This postcard was sent to Kuba from a friend after he emigrated to Australia.

Kuba Enoch was born in Krakow, Poland 1926. He was 13 years old when the war began; soon after, he and his family were rounded up into Krakow ghetto. When it was liquidated in 1943, Kuba's younger brother was removed and his parents were sent to Plaszow concentration camp. Hoping to locate his mother, Kuba volunteered to go on the next transport. He was sent to Ostrowiec, Aushwitz-Birkenau and was eventually moved to Buna camp where he remained until it was evacuated. Kuba was then marched to Buchenwald. Throughout his ordeal he was never reunited with his mother.

Following liberation by U.S forces, Kuba was sent by the Red Cross to recover in Switzerland. He arrived in Australia in 1948.

Production placeSwitzerland

Production date 1947-02-02

Production periodpost World War II

Subjectsurvivors, establishing new life, education, child survivors, schools & colleges, friendships

Object namepostcards

Materialpaper

Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum collection, donated by Pearl Blasina. In appreciation to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) for supporting this archival project.

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